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Ancient Tablet Reveals Lost Sumerian Myth: Hero Fox Saving an Anunnaki God
For 4,400 years, a small clay tablet lay hidden inside the ruins of the Ancient Sumerian city of Nippur (in what’s now southern Iraq). This tablet may be miniscule but it reveals…
When Zeus ‘Ate’ The Creator to Become Supreme God
Zeus’s rise to ultimate power wasn’t just forged by thunderbolts and battles with Titans—it was an act of divine transcendence, rooted in an ancient Orphic tradition often overshadowed by Hesiod’s Theogony. Hesiod’s…
Stunning Statue of Hermes Amidst Ancient Discoveries in Turkish City
As part of the “Heritage to the Future Project” carried out by Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, excavations are underway under the ancient city of Aspendos. One of these digs, ongoing…
The Gold Tongues of Oxyrhynchus: How to Talk to a God
Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona excavating the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus have uncovered a cache of mummies dating to the Ptolemaic period. Some of the mummies, which seem to have…
2nd Century BC Drug Vase Shows Ancient Egyptians Knew How to Party
A new analysis of a vase from ancient Egypt has revealed what we think everyone already knew: ancient Egyptians loved their psychedelics. The vase, fashioned in the likeness of the Egyptian party…
Urim and Thummim: How God Told the Hebrews What to Do
Urim and Thummim are an enigma, both at the same time a vital central aspect of the Bible and almost willfully obscure. In a narrative where God appears regularly but only when…